Fastening device for gutters and pavements



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I. L. LANDIS.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR GUTTERS AND PAVEMENTS.

Patented Dec. 13

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I. L. LANDIS.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR GUTTERS AND PAVEMENTS. No. 374,685. Patented Dec. 13, 1887.

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NITED STATES PAT NT rFicE.

V ISRAEL L. LANDIS, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR GUTTERS AND PAVEMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,685, dated December 13, 1887.

Application filed October 26, 1887. Serial No. 253,390. (No model.)

To all whom it mayconcern:

Be it known that I, ISRAEL L. LANDIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices for Gutters and Pavements; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide gutters consisting of blocks or bricks built in the form of an inverted arch with locking devices which willkeep them in such form and hold them securely to the curb of the sidewalk or the blocks of the roadway, or both.

To effect this object I employ angular pieces of metal, preferably castings, which fit upon the bricks of the gutter and the sidewalk-curb orfixed blocks of the roadway and lock the bricks of the gutter against displacement. These locking pieces or sections of metal are. engaged with each other, so as to forman unbroken facing of metal covering the angle formed by the curb and gutter or by the gutter and. the nearest roadway'block.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of part of a gutter provided with such a facing of locking-- pieces on the sidewalk side. Fig. 2represents a vertical transverse section through the same. Fig. 3 represents two of the interlocking sections slightly separated to show the parts which engage. Fig. 4. represents, on a smaller scale, in vertical transverse section, a gutter provided with two modified forms of the locking-pieces. Fig. 5represents a similar view of a gutter provided with two other modified forms of locking-pieces. Fig. 6-

represents a similar view of a gutter pro- .vided with two other modified forms of locking-pieces. Fig. 7 represents a similar view of a gutter provided with two other modified forms of locking-pieces.

In most of the figures showing the gutter the curbstone or brick and at least one block of the roadway are also shown.

The same letters designate corresponding parts in the several figures.

A designates the curbstone at the outer edge of a sidewalk. Of course brick or any other suitable substance may be substituted.

B designates the blocks of the roadway.

G designates'a gutter composed of bricks arranged in the form of an inverted arch, presenting upward a practically regular transversely-curved surface. At the angle formed by the said gutter and the said curbstone or the nearer blocks, B, of the roadway a series of locking-pieces, D, are located. As shown in the several views above mentioned, these may Vary widelyin form; but each has such an angular shape as will cause it to fit on the faces of the bricks and the curbstone or roadway-blocks in such wise as to hold the gutter in position as an entirety. As shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, each locking piece or section D is provided with a broad flange, D, presenting a curved face obliquely upward. At the back of this are two flat faces, (Z d, arranged at an angle to each other, the former being vertical when in position for use and fitting against the inner face of the cnrbstone A,while the face .d fits against the proximate upper face of the nearest brick of the gutter.

-Between the curbstone and the gutter the body D of the locking-piece extends obliquely downward. Its upper part is bent and flattened to present on its upper side a face, 11 fitting the flat bottom of the curbstone. The lower part of said body Dfits on the opposite side against the proximate side of the nearestbrick of the gutter for the greater portion-of the length of said brick. At thelower end of said body D of the locking-piece a lateral flange, d fits under said brick. The two proximate corners of said curbstone and brick are received, respecti vely, into the angle formed by faces at d and the angle formed by face d and a small face, d, of body D, which latter face also fits against the side of said brick.

These faces d d d d, with the lower part of body D and the flange d effectually hold said brick in place, since both it and the curbstone aregrasp'ed thereby. This willordinarilysuf-j 1 fice'to prevent the displacement of any of the bricks forming the inverted arch of the gutter;

but for greater security I sometimes would prefer to use a similar locking-piece on the opposite side of the latter, as illustrated in some of the other figures of the drawings.

The locking-pieces D aforesaid (see Fig. 3) are constructed to engage or interlock with each other, end for end, by means of projections and recesses, which may be greatly varied.

continuous guard or cover of metal over the angle between the gutter and the ourbstone or brick at the edge of the sidewalk.

In Fig. 4 I have shown, on the right side, a modified form of locking-piece, D, having its upper end provided with a lateral flange, m, which fits on the top of the curbstone A, and its lower end bifurcated, one fork, m, fitting against the inclined face of the nearest brick of the gutter, while theother fork is bent at right angles; one part, m", fitting against the bottom of said curbstone, and the other part, m extending therefrom across to said brick. The body of said locking-piece fits against the side of said curbstone. On the other side said gutter is provided with another modified formof fastening-piece D, consisting of a curved plate with fiat rear faces fitting against the nearest block B of the road way and the two proximate bricks of the gutter. It has rearward wings, n n, which extend through the cracks between said blocks 0 and the first brick and between the latter and the second brick. These wings fit against the sides of the bricks, as shown. \Ving n has a lateral flange, n extending to block B, to aid in locking the gutter-bricks in place.

In Fig. 5, the lockingpicceD on the right side a has likewise two wings extending rearward. They are at such a distance from each other as to leave space for a considerable amount of sand, w, or other loose material between them. These wings (marked 0 0) fit, respectively, against the under side of the curbstone I and the side nearest it ofthe nearest brick.

The body of sa-idlocking-piece covers the sand 1 given, either locking device being used for either side of the gutter, and any brick or block being the equivalent of the curbstoneor roadwayblock.

On the right side of Fig. 6 is alocking-piece like the letter K, having rearward wings, q q',

used like wings 0 o,already described. A lateral terminal extension, Q2, of wing q extends behind the brick to which said wing is applied. The locking-picce on the opposite side of said figure difl'ers but little from thislast,

, except that the wings q q are united, and the latter has an additional direct extension, g, at its rear end entering the sand w.

Fig. 7 shows on the right side a lockingpiece having a thick head notched at r to receive the proximate lower corner of the curbstone, the said lockingpiece also fitting against the front and side of the nearest brick of the gutter and having at its rear end a cross-piece, r, whichfits against the rear of said brick. Another brick may be fitted obliquely endwise between this locking piece and the curbstone. The locking-piece at the other side of said figure has'a notch, r, at its upper end-,like the above,and a notch, r, atitslower end,which fits similarly on the nearest brick. This locking-piece has no extension to the rear of said brick,and may be long enough to span a considerable interval of sand or other filling.

Having thus described my invention, what I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A gutter composed of brick-work arranged in an inverted arch, in combination with a curbstone, brick, or block of the sidewalk or roadway, and a locking-piece fitting on .said curbstone and on one or more of the bricks of said gutter, for the purpose set forth.

2. A metallic locking-piece having faces to fit against the gutter and pavement and lock the former in place.

A series oflockingpieces'having recesses and projections engaging end for end and faces whichfit against the curb. or roadway blocks and the gutter to lock the latter in place.

4. The locking-piece D, having faces at d, which fit against the front and bottom of the 'curbstone, additional faces, (1' d, which fit against the corresponding parts of the nearest brick, and a body, D, extending rearward, which fits against the side of said brick, sub stantially as set forth.

5. A-curbstone or pavement block, in combination with a gutter of bricks arranged in an inverted arch, and a locking-piece whichv fits on thefront and bottom of said curbstone" or block and on the front side and rear of the nearest brick, substantially as set forth.

In testimonywhereof I afiix my signaturei-n presence of two witnesses.

ISRAEL L. LANDIS.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. MORTON, ANTHONY IsrE. 

